On Nov 30, 2011 1:29 AM, "kashani" <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/29/2011 6:04 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, November 29, 2011 2:22 pm, Vinícius Ferrão wrote:
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> Filtering Windows executables will only make the system admin to be
>>> recognized as an asshole and windows-hater.
>>
>>
>> I wouldn't class him/her as an ***hole or *******-hater.
>> Simply as an incompetent braindead hobbyist who doesn't know what he/she
>> is doing.
>>
>> Sadly, my ISP filters those on outgoing emails. Which makes it difficult
>> for me to send stuff to friends/colleagues who know how to handle these
>> things.
>
>
>        Meh, I'd consider your point of view if the bad *.exe to good
ratio weren't somewhere in the vicinity of a million to 1. No point in
wasting the cycles passing them to AV when you can just reject them. The
one user you're likely to affect can use dropbox, http, ftp, etc.
>

True.  How so very true. It took me more than one year to train my BoD to
stop sending huge files (10MB+) using email. Almost two years to train the
lusers to distrust attachments, and act reciprocally (i. e., to not send
*.exe files unwrapped).

It's been a hard job trying to turn the lusers into sheeples, but
satisfying when they finally "see the light", so to speak. :-)

(And you can easily see that I've been reading too much BOFH)

Rgds,